I got a little peeved I'm not gonna lie. I'm all about the salsa and meringue music since it was 80 degrees and in miami - but the first penalty call in spanish, the commercials in spanish, the close up of the mexico city movieplex where the game was being shown....

I' m not okay with any of this. I speak spanish fluently so this isn't ignorance pouring out of me - it's knowledge of history. Rome crumbled once it lost latin, the only reason we don't all speak chinese was due to the never ending warring over dialects until Mandarin finally won out and even today you still can find sino-tibetan, wu, and whatever else the other 10 (?) dialects are. I am pretty sure manchurian is also still out there.

A country needs a standardized language - I don't have time to write up a proof on this but when you are consistently shown the blunders of countries that tried to go bilingual and see their failure I want to scream and shake and kick everyone in the face who has a hand in this.

Thoughts?

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mzziqztixl wrote:

speak spanish fluently

wait, what?? since when, I why don't we ever speak spanish?

and I agree on the fact that a country needs a standarized language (in fact, the world needs one, but that would be too much to ask) but aren't there a few bilingual countries out there that don't have a problem w it?

Well seeing as the US is slowly turning into North Mexico I'd get used to it

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